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Maybe AOL's Bankruptcy
Would Be More Ethical

By

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

Updated April 22, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Steve Case: entrepreneurial outlaw or just a guy doing his job?

Few things on this earth stimulate more ethical outrage than a busy signal, and America Online's chief has lately become everybody's business bad guy. The devil theory of Mr. Case is further compounded by the fact that AOLers are drawn from the uptrodden classes, who have access to the public squawk box.